From: Russ Paielli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [EM] Rewording Strategy A (BF(1st))
Forest Simmons simmonfo-at-up.edu |EMlist| wrote:
Departing from Strategy A, we offer the following refinement in the same
spirit:
For each candidate C, if you think the winner is more likely to come
from the
Russ said:
Perhaps some of the folks here missed my point about Approval strategy.
Well, at least one person has, but he is a fruitcake.
I reply:
Great that Russ has risen above his ranting :-)
But that's still unoriginal, since I'd used fruitcake, to refer to Russ's
anti-evolution arguments.
Say, for all you know, all the candidates are equally likely to win.
And say you're using the Better/Worse strategy, which doesn't use your
utility estimates.
If your preferences are GDR, then vote for G. No one better than G can
win, but someone worse than G can win. Better/Worse says to vote
Well, at least one person has, but he is a fruitcake.
This is getting to be worse than divorce court. Maybe you two lovebirds
should consider getting together with a professional councilor.
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